you usually need more money to blitzscale than to fastscale, because you have to keep enough capital in reserve to recover from the many mistakes you… - Reid Hoffman

If you aren’t embarrassed by the first version of your product, you shipped too late.

If your company lacks meaningful official values, take the liberty of defining those values for your team.

Chesapeake moved faster than any other company in its industry, deploying an army of land men to aggressively lease as much land as possible, with instructions to pay whatever was necessary, without knowing whether the gas deposits would justify the price. Hiring an army of land men and paying top dollar for leases sight unseen seemed inefficient…until the wells started producing.